Blood And Soil Case Study

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Blood and soil. This macabre chant haunts the world and represents the distorted ideology that links ethnicity and territory. “Blood and soil” represents a despicable Nazi ideology, an ideology with no place in a civilized society. Yet, these very words continue to be utilized by the neo-Nazis, the alt-right, the Ku Klux Klan, and the white supremacists who, to this day, continue to lurk in the ominous shadows of America. Wielding their torches, chanting these slurs, promoting hate and discrimination against all non-white people, white supremacists collected in defense of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. However, this protest against the removal of a symbol of oppression was regarded as a right. The right to free speech and the right to collective, peaceful, protests-- a right protected by the United States Federal Government. In the 1969 Supreme Court case of …show more content…

This case was then taken to the Supreme Court, where Supreme Court justices deliberated whether this law violated free speech under the United States Constitution. In a 7-1 decision in favor of Brandenburg, the court upheld that this specific law was unconstitutional, as it violated the right to free speech. However, the Supreme Court justices also upheld that if any act of free speech incited lawless action, state law could prohibit it. This decision, in its true effects, has preserved hate groups such as the KKK by allowing individuals to continue spreading hate in America. However, recently, the alt-right has made several violent protests around the South-- and no true action by the United States has stopped them. These groups remain continuously protected by this heinously abhorrent decision of the Supreme

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